Wednesday, August 29, 2012

August FMQ Challenge

Wendy Sheppard of Ivory Spring is the tutor for the month of August in Sew Cal Gal's Free-Motion Quilting Challenge. In this challenge, Wendy shows how to create a Jester's Hat design with a leaf icon added. Here are a couple of practice doodles that I created a while ago. Love how smooth this is to do. It feels very natural.

I used this design for the background on my Billie Holiday piece and added some leaves and musical notes. I used Coats and Clark Dual Duty for the top and bobbin so that I wouldn't get any pop up showing on the dark background fabric. The thread colour is dark green. I was going to use a dark grey or black to match the background but I thought that if it blends in too well, I won't be able to see where I am going as I stitch.

Jester's Hat with leaves and feathers added.

Can you spot the musical notes symbols?

This was so fun to stitch. Since I completed this quilting a couple months before August, I won't be able to submit it for the challenge, but it fits in so well with the techniques that Wendy teaches and it's nice to see adaptations. See what everyone else is doing for August at Sewcalgal.

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I recently turned 50 and have developed an insatiable need to work with fabric. I enjoy collecting it, looking at it and sometimes I even like to cut into it. I'm married to a wonderfully supportive husband who offers words of encouragement for all my projects.